{"id":1543,"date":"2015-04-14T18:48:43","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/studentblogs\/bayan14\/?p=133"},"modified":"2015-04-14T18:48:43","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T18:48:43","slug":"spring-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/2015\/04\/14\/spring-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are more than half way through our Spring Break already (where did the time go??!!) and it has become clear that I have fallen in the latter category: the people hibernating and pulling all-nighters. It\u2019s just that I\u2019ve slacked off the last month and there\u2019s so much to catch up on and revise if I ever hope to pass the exams, now about a month away.<\/p>\n

Despite that I still managed to slip away from the mountain of work to enjoy the long, sunny days (England is experiencing unusual weather patterns; it got all the way up to 20\u00b0C this week) and went to London Zoo to celebrate my friend\u2019s birthday. Believe it or not, I have never been to a zoo before so I was actually quite excited; almost like a 5-year-old when you tell them you\u2019re getting ice cream. It was absolutely amazing to take in all these animals that I have watched for years on National Geographic documentaries and to see them in real life. Though I was a bit disappointed that there were no bears or lions (they\u2019re bringing lions in the spring of 2016 but no word on the bears yet) but the other animals more than made up for it, especially seeing a real life okapi (a weird looking animal that resembles a mule in height, a zebra in the stripes on its back and a giraffe in its tongue. It\u2019s too difficult to explain so I added a picture!). It was also great to see the zoo\u2019s effort at conservation activities like growing coral and breeding programs done by ZSL (Zoological Society of London) around the world, although they did strike me as pessimistic when they labelled animals as \u2018not YET threatened\u2019 as if it were inevitable that every animal would be (which I know to be false because flour beetles can survive a freaking nuclear fallout-even better than cockroaches! And let\u2019s be real, insects do not seem like they would go extinct anytime soon; you kill one and twenty more appear!).<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The baffling okapi.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Penguins<\/a>
Penguins doing their thing!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Flamingos<\/a>
Flamingos looking flawless as usual.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"A<\/a>
A giraffe scratching its head (#giraffeproblems)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I then went on a shopping spree the very next day; spring is finally here and I needed a few items as my closet is not prepared for temperatures above 15\u00b0C. And while I was procrastinating anyway, I thought, \u2018Why stop?\u2019 and watched Dior and I<\/em>\u2019 (a documentary giving the world a unique look into one of the last fashion houses that still follow the \u2018haute couture traditions\u2019).<\/p>\n

But I am afraid I can no longer procrastinate any further if I have any hope of covering all the material I have left before the exams. Alas, I must turn to Heat and Mass Transfer for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Work, work and some more work…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1047,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190116,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-term","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/student-blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}